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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:33 pm
Ciel Avec Cafeine Strawberry shortcake is really popular here in the early summer. It's everywhere. I don't like the biscuit, so I usually just have strawberries with whipping cream. Aretoo: Stop teasing the vegetarian. crying Not intending teasing... that's how I grew up! ^_^ (And 2 acres of corn for 4 people... was my dad NUTS?) rofl One of my favorite things is to do when I was growing up was to climb into the Gravenstein apple tree with a salt shaker and a good book, pick 10 or so good fist-sized apples, and lean back against the trunk and eat and read. I'm drooling right now. ^_^ And 2 kinds of blackberries grew on our farm; ones with rounded leaves and ones with maple leaf-shaped leaves. i preferred the ones with the maple shaped leaves, but really, is there any such thing as a bad fresh blackberry? I'd pick a Tupperware salad bowl full of them (probably 12 to 14 cups), and we'd have blackberry freezer jam, fresh blackberries over ice cream, blackberry cobbler... and of course handfulls of fresh blackberries that stained my fingers purple. ^_^
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:35 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:38 pm
aretoo Not intending teasing... that's how I grew up! ^_^ (And 2 acres of corn for 4 people... was my dad NUTS?) rofl One of my favorite things is to do when I was growing up was to climb into the Gravenstein apple tree with a salt shaker and a good book, pick 10 or so good fist-sized apples, and lean back against the trunk and eat and read. I'm drooling right now. ^_^ What was the salt shaker for? o_O Quote: And 2 kinds of blackberries grew on our farm; ones with rounded leaves and ones with maple leaf-shaped leaves. i preferred the ones with the maple shaped leaves, but really, is there any such thing as a bad fresh blackberry? I'd pick a Tupperware salad bowl full of them (probably 12 to 14 cups), and we'd have blackberry freezer jam, fresh blackberries over ice cream, blackberry cobbler... and of course handfulls of fresh blackberries that stained my fingers purple. ^_^ Wild ones grew all around my grandmother's place. =3 They were really great. Blueberries stain so badly. @_@ Everyone used to scoop blueberries in the summer for extra money (unlike the US, we use children rather than illegal immigrants), and the first week of school, everyone's hands and feet were blue. x3
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:40 pm
...Er? And I love tomatoes. Especially beefsteak tomatoes (the big ones); I'd go out and pick 4-5 of them, slice 'em up and eat 'em plain (with salt) or with a little mayo or miracle whip, or diced up with a little red wine vinegar. :droooool: The tomatoes on the vine that stores sell now come pretty close... smile
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:40 pm
to the first part Ciel it was for the apples, have none of you had apples with salt?
as for the second part both me and my sister find your commentary on the US hilarious xd
EDIT: ARETOO STOP MAKING ME JEALOUS! YOU EVIL EVIL THING!
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:42 pm
<_< It's true. Who the hell wants to cross *two* borders? Not that it's hard to get into Canada, but it's a long walk.
And salt...on your apples??? Eugh.
I only like tomato with other stuff. I went to an Italian restaurant once with my ex, and he ordered everything. The appetizer was this hunk of mozzarella with a slab of tomato on top. Blech.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:43 pm
My feeling exactly Ciel...but then again I've never tried it...
@aretoo I've never been so jealous of anyone... crying
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:44 pm
Salt shaker was for the tart apples, something I got from my mom. I also eat my grapefruit with salt. ^_^
The blackberries were all wild; my farm was a section of the farm my dad grew up on (it was divvied up amongst my dad and his siblings after my grandparents died), and was 35 acres of mostly forest.
"Scoop" blueberries? And why were your feet blue?
And children pick strawberries along with illegal immigrants, at least on the farms where I grew up; that's what I did for pocket money and money to go to the county /state fairs. mrgreen
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:45 pm
We only really border the US and ...well, Siberia, I suppose. And the ones fleeing the US are queer. <_<
Yep, scoop. The blueberries grow on really low, dense shrubs, in huge fields. You scoop them. But everyone wears sandals, and their feet end up blue.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:45 pm
I don't mind eating tomatoes by themselves, they're nummy.
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:46 pm
at least you would be nice and fit when you got to Canada Ciel xd
@aretoo waaaaaaah I wanna go to your old home, I want a bunch of fresh fruit *pouts*
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:48 pm
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:49 pm
Bear in mind it's not sweet apples I do this with, but tart ones. Try it sometime. smile
One of the things I miss most is being able to walk outside at night and see the Milky Way galaxy from the driveway. (My folks still live out there, btw, though I don't get out there often enough 'cause of work schedule to raid the garden often.)
Hm... well, I've never *scooped* blueberries, but we had a few shrubs... Unfortunately, my dog discovered he liked eating them, directly from the vine... rofl
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:51 pm
*gives aretoo a puppy dog face* take me? I shall kidnap you you take me?... then again the likelyhood of that happening is slim *le sigh*
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:51 pm
aretoo Bear in mind it's not sweet apples I do this with, but tart ones. Try it sometime. smile One of the things I miss most is being able to walk outside at night and see the Milky Way galaxy from the driveway. (My folks still live out there, btw, though I don't get out there often enough 'cause of work schedule to raid the garden often.) Hm... well, I've never *scooped* blueberries, but we had a few shrubs... Unfortunately, my dog discovered he liked eating them, directly from the vine... rofl I'll give it a shot. And I miss the stars, too. I live in a city these days, and although the lights on the refinery actually look like fairy lights...it's not the same. The view from my house, almost
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